Archive: Phenomena

About fake shops and what you can do about them

The Fake Shop Detector is an AI that provides automated protection against online fraud. It measures the similarity of online shops to known fake shops and warns in real time using a traffic light system.

Digital disinformation to influence political elections

Can deliberately false, digital news reports (disinformation) influence the outcome of elections? Who spreads such false reports and what can be done about it?

Inner Source in Software Development

Inner source is the internal opening of software code within a company. It promotes transparency,
collaboration and thus improves the speed of innovation and competitiveness of companies.

Gaia-X: Sovereign data infrastructure for Europe

The Gaia X vision: A secure and interoperable data infrastructure for Europe to strengthen digital sovereignty and realize data innovations in all areas from health to education.

Social media influencer communication and its ethical challenges

The influencer industry faces its very own ethical challenges, which differ significantly from those in journalism, advertising and PR.

Digitalisation of urban and spatial planning for the “double” transformation

Cities and regions are facing two challenges at the same time: digitalization and sustainable transformation. Societal adaptation to climate change makes it essential to rethink spatial and urban planning, for example in the context…

Precision farming – digitalisation in agriculture

Precision farming and earth observation provide the basis for data-based decision support in agriculture in order to optimise arable farming and ensure its sustainability.

Virtual reality in medical studies

Learning environments based on virtual reality are increasingly changing education and training in the healthcare sector. The article highlights the areas of application and opportunities of this new method in medical studies.

Self-Sovereign Identities

Self-sovereign identity describes a paradigm for designing data-sovereign, digital identity management systems with the aid of cryptographic building blocks.

Psychoinformatics

Psychoinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of research in which digital footprints are used to predict psychological characteristics such as personality or state of mind.